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I love it when you go back to your original type of work. Never enough time to paint these days?

Always busy with customer orders! This is one I started building over a year ago that I've finally just got round to finishing up, but the "project" guitars get put aside for ordered guitars

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Definitely a lot of great looking stuff in here! Very impressive.

Sully

Thanks heaps for the kind words! Your work isn't too shabby either! I don't spend a lot of time on youtube, but every now and then I somehow stumble across one of your vids, think I've prob watched about five or ten of them. Usually pretty entertaining!

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really nice work man, what kind of paint do you use for the airbrushing? same lacquer or other kind of material?

I would assume it is automotive basecoat.

Correct - Automotive 2k, PPG Deltron to be exact. I mix it to a thinner ratio compared to spraying cars or anything with a full sized gun. Normally I'd mix 1:1 but for airbrushing I mix 1:2

The red is "Viper Red", left overs from a Chevy Corvette I sprayed a while back, the camo is shades of an Olive color which is an Autothane (Autothane = PPG panel shop range) custom mix and then the shades I mixed myself on the spot using black to darken the two other greens

I always have white and black mixed up as I use them for pretty much everything. The only Black in this job was in the mouth, what looks like black in the camo is actually a really dark green that is is nearly black, then there is the white in the mouth and the white in the pin striping, then I dusted the whole job with a charcoal color to make it look dirty and war torn, less "brand new" as clean camo looks crap in my opinion.

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